Episode 665: Fruit Thinning, Thorny Gooseberries & Summer Slaw Magic
Welcome to Episode 665 of the Veg Grower Podcast. This week Richard shares a classic mix of summer gardening jobs — fruit thinning, sweetcor...
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20 of 110 episodesEpisode 664: Heatwave Gardening – Early Mornings, Water Wisdom & Edible Ponds
Welcome to Episode 664 of the Veg Grower Podcast. This week has been shaped by one thing: heat. With temperatures soaring and humidity makin...
Episode 663- Gardeners’ World Live 2026: Inspiring Designs, Mushroom Magic & Growing for Every Space
This week on the Veg Grower Podcast, I took you with me on my annual pilgrimage to Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC in Birmingham — for the...
Episode 662 — A Week of Growth: Garlic Harvest, Garden Tidying & Feeding Our Plants
This week on the Veg Grower Podcast, I’ve been making the most of a week off work — and it’s amazing how much difference a few focused days...
Episode 661: Early June Chaos: Wild Weather, Busy Bees and Successional Sowing
Early June has brought that classic mix of heavy rain, strong winds and sudden sunshine — and the garden has certainly felt it. In this week...
Episode 660: Embracing Tomato Fortnight & Sowing French Beans in Early Summer
Early summer has truly arrived, and with it comes one of my favourite celebrations in the gardening calendar—Tomato Fortnight. As I shared i...
Episode 659: Battling the Heatwave & Finding a Rustic Vision for the Kitchen Garden
This week’s bank holiday brought record‑breaking heat, and like many gardeners, I’ve spent most of my time simply trying to keep plants aliv...
Episode 658: The Week the Weather Turned… and I Finally Got My Bees
This week’s episode of The Veg Grower Podcast is a real mix of surprises, setbacks, and exciting new beginnings. From unexpected frost damag...
Episode 657: Sowing Winter Cabbage, Tackling Allotment Overwhelm & Our April Book Review
This week has been one of those classic early‑May weeks where everything seems to need doing at once. I’ve been sowing our Seed of the Month...
Episode 656: Highlights From the Gardener’s World Spring Fair
This week has been a little different here at the Veg Grower Podcast. While the allotment and kitchen garden have mostly seen me planting ou...
Episode 655: Planting Early, Protecting Brassicas & My First Real Beekeeping Experience
We’re at the end of April and everything suddenly feels early this year. Warm days, fast growth, and that sense that the season has properly...
Episode 654: What’s Really Growing This Week — And How Do You Label It All?
This week on the Veg Grower Podcast, Richard takes us through that wonderful mid‑April moment when everything suddenly bursts into life. The...
Episode 653 — Seedlings, Straw Bales & the Aphid Battle Begins
This week’s episode takes us from a sun‑soaked kitchen garden to a windswept allotment and finally into the potting shed, where a familiar s...
Episode 652 Easter Gardening, Potato Planting & Tackling the Hunger Gap
This Easter weekend has been a rare treat. Four full days in the garden, decent weather, and plenty of progress across both the allotment an...
Episode 651: Pea Planting, Beetroot Basics & A Year on the Waterway – Early Spring in the Garden
This Week in the Kitchen Garden Richard opens this week’s episode by describing that classic early‑spring rush — the moment when the light i...
Episode 650: Spring Sunshine, Potato Planting & A Buzzing Start to Beekeeping Season
Spring has finally arrived on the south coast, and with it comes that unmistakable lift in energy across the allotment and kitchen garden. T...
Episode 649- Early Carrots, Soil Care, and the Power of Wool Pellets — This Week on the Veg Grower Podcast
Spring is finally starting to show itself in Richard’s garden this week, with early sowings going into the ground, the greenhouse warming up...
Episode 648: A Big Tree Down, Compost Going Out and My Top Tips for Successful Seed Germination
This week’s episode has been a satisfying mix of big winter jobs finally completed, steady progress in both the kitchen garden and the allot...
Episode 647: March Begins: Soil Warming, Cauliflowers & No‑Dig Gardening
March has arrived and the soil is finally starting to warm up. This week on the podcast In this week’s episode of The Veg Grower Podcast, Ri...
Episode 646: Greenhouse Heating Test, Spring Prep & Beekeeping Insights
This week on the Veg Grower Podcast, I’ve been dodging rain showers, running a greenhouse heating test, answering listener questions, and ge...